DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

DFG Research Training Group 2686: Contradiction Studies –

Constellations, Heuristics, and Concepts of the Contradictory

Associated Docs

Former Associated Docs

Jan Bartsch
Jan Schulze Buschoff
Jody Danard
Jan Dittrich
Lilli Hasche
Hanna Schwamborn
Helen Stephan
Jonas Trochemowitz

power and resistance

“Michel Foucault says: “Where there is power, there is resistance, and […] this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power” (History of Sexuality I, The Will to Knowledge, 1976, p. 95)”
Gisela Febel

every day

“Living in contradictions is what we experience every day. Why do we know so little about it?”
Gisela Febel

driver

“Contradictions are an important driver of scientific practice and knowledge.”
Norman Sieroka

problem to be solved

“Contradiction is not primarily a problem to be solved but a motor we cannot do without.”
Martin Nonhoff

earthing

“Geography as a discipline stands for a certain worlding, if not earthing, of contradiction, in both theoretical and pracitcal respect.”
Julia Lossau